In 35 years of practice ... I have never lost one heart-attack patient.

That’s a pretty remarkable claim to make, but Dr. John Christopher, the famous master herbalist, said it with confidence.

“If they are still breathing, I give them a cup of cayenne tea (a teaspoon of cayenne in a cup of hot water), and within minutes they are up and around.”

Cayenne? The pepper?

That’s right. Cayenne is one of the fastest-acting aids for the heart, because it feeds that heart immediately.

Here’s how it works: Cayenne helps maintain the "river of life," also known as the bloodstream. A stagnated "river of life" leads to blockages, which lead to oxygen starvation, which leads to organ dysfunction, disease, and, in severe cases, heart attack. Cayenne pepper works like a drain opener that blasts through the blockages, delivering oxygenated blood into sick or dying organs faster than any other medicine or herb can get there.

But that’s not all; cayenne has more health benefits than any other single food or herb on earth.

Cayenne taken internally as a tea will stop the bleeding — even from a severe cut or gunshot wound — in most cases by the time you can count to ten. Cayenne has a natural, powerful, equalizing effect on blood-pressure. When it hits your bloodstream — which it does immediately — it adjusts your blood pressure from the top of your head to the bottom of your feet. Thus, the high pressure at the wound site is alleviated and clotting can start at once.

Cayenne is truly a gift to humanity. Over 3,000 scientific studies listed in the National Library of Medicine support the use of cayenne in preventing and reversing many common health ailments.

So … What’s the Catch?

Not all cayenne peppers are the same! Each of the many varieties has a different use and level of heat. Heat (or "Scoville") units are determined by the quantity of chemicals in the cayenne and its resins. The higher the level, the hotter the cayenne pepper — and the hotter the pepper, the stronger and more effective a healer it is.

Ultra-hot cayenne tincture from 300,000-heat-unit organic habanero peppers will increase your blood flow almost instantly, bringing in new oxygen to your body's vital organs, muscles, and tissues, and, at the same time, carrying away toxic wastes from these same areas in its return flow.

Virtual "White Light"

Dick Quinn described his out-of-body experience he'd had when he "died" from a massive heart attack, but was then revived. With fully blocked arteries, he was given a choice: multiple-bypass surgery or death. Unfortunately, the surgery failed; several weeks later, Dick was still dying a slow, painful death.

This time, his doctors only gave him one choice: another bypass. He refused. His cracked ribs still hadn't healed from the first time; his pain was excruciating; and he didn't see how a repeat of the same surgery could improve his condition.

Since Dick had refused surgery and the drugs weren't working, his doctors discharged him.

Dick went home to die — and for several weeks, that's how it looked. His condition worsened daily until it took every ounce of his strength just to get to the bathroom. He could barely catch his breath. His skin was gray – his body was getting no oxygen. He was cold and miserable all the time.

One day while sitting in a park letting the sun warm him, he had either a divine or serendipitious experience: a woman abruptly walked over and told him to use cayenne pepper for his condition. After politely asking her to leave him alone, as he was busy dying, Dick went home and forgot about her.

A few weeks later, feeling worse than ever, he remembered the encounter. In desperation, he decided to try some cayenne. He figured the worst it could do was kill him –– and he was already dying, anyway.

Dick emptied a couple of heart-medication capsules and refilled them with cayenne from his spice cabinet. The results were miraculous — not only did he recover, he wrote up his story for all to read in Left for Dead, which you can buy on the Internet or at most health-food stores. Dick was 42 when he had his heart attack; at 58, he could be found on a world-wide, 300-day-a-year lecture circuit, sharing the life-saving benefits of cayenne.

Cayenne is better than a cup of coffee for energy, mental clarity, and being kind to the body since it doesn’t wipe out the adrenal glands with harmful stimulants. Cayenne has so many positive effects on the body, the list seems endless, especially since most health problems start with a lack of circulation triggered by anything from clogging foods, medications, lack of exercise, to depression, etc.

One Success Story After Another

Many BASTIS Foundation clients have animal companions who also need help. One young pug was brought in with sudden deafness and dizziness, according to her "father."

Pugs tend to have difficulty breathing and she had just had sinus surgery followed by the usual antibiotics. Soon she was walking into walls. She didn't respond to any noises whatsoever — not even her dinner bell.

We suspected a bad reaction to the antibiotics and recommended a teaspoon of cayenne tincture poured down her throat to blast her nerves back into action.

Whoa! Talk about a pug with bugged-out eyes! The little girl rubbed her face all over the floor, wriggled on her back and rubbed at her ears with her paws for close to five minutes. Then her 'dad' called to her. She jumped up and ran to him! To this day, she's jumping, snorting, and racing to her food bowl whenever she's called.

Incision Begone!

Beth had emergency surgery for adhesions that were strangulating her colon after an earlier surgical procedure. Hospitalized for two weeks, her 16-inch "stem-to-stern" incision became dangerously infected just as she was about to be discharged –– not an uncommon problem, since anyone in a weakened state is susceptible to the unlimited infections floating around a hospital. This required two more weeks of hospitalization, but Beth’s condition only worsened. After her fourth week in the hospital, Beth desperately wanted out, so she signed a release, agreed to retain the services of a home nurse and went home with a BASTIS Foundation caregiver.

The nurse came, checked the dressing, and left instructions that it be changed twice a day. Before she left, she warned Beth to expect a long healing process.

The BASTIS Foundation caregiver poured four ounces of 300,000-heat-unit habañero tincture right into the wound, then took Beth’s hand and waited for the screams, because it was so hot that one drop would make your eyes bug out when it hit your tongue.

Beth was silent.

She felt no pain, she said. An hour later, however, the incision was "on fire." Another hour passed, and the fire –– and pain –– were gone.

When the nurse returned the next morning to check on the infection, she was shocked! Overnight, the oozing had stopped and the incision had started closing –– in less than 24 hours, the infection was disappearing.

Cauterization in a Jar

Inga showed up with a gushing index finger after accidentally cutting off its tip with a miter saw five hours earlier. Although bleeding non-stop, she had been turned away by the local hospital as she had no insurance.

Inga was extremely pale and dizzy when she arrived. We stuck her finger into a jar of powdered cayenne made from African Bird peppers (approx. 200,000 heat units). At first the pain was pretty intense, but no worse than it had been the previous few hours.

We wrapped the finger with cayenne powder clinging to the open wound. The cayenne had already cauterized the wound, so the bleeding had stopped.

I just wanted to drop you a note to thank you for healing my index finger on my left hand.

As you might recall, on August 19, 1998 at 3:00pm I came to your office with an emergency. I had accidentally touched the blade of the mitre saw while it was in operation. It only took this split second contact with the saw blade to cut out the flesh on my index finger almost to the bone, leaving nothing left to be stitched.

You cleansed my profusely bleeding finger, then proceeded to pack it into cayenne pepper, covering the entire wound. I was rather skeptical of this procedure, but it worked! The bleeding stopped and the pain iterally had vanished by dinner time, without "painkillers!"

The next day you instructed me to cleanse the wound and apply calendula ointment and tea tree oil twice a day. In wonderment I observed my finger heal rapidly from hour to hour. It was miraculous!

Anyway, to make a long story short, after several weeks my finger was healed without any infection. I still have a minimal "dent" where the flesh was sawed out, but I have full use of my finger, no nerve damage etc.

Your quick certainty on how to treat such an injury effectively was quite impressive and confidence inspiring.

What Inga didn't mention in the letter was that one of her associates did the exact same thing a week later — only he had insurance and was given emergency medical care at a hospital, where he received a skin graft from his hip to cover the tip of his finger. Now, more than six years later, he still experiences pain and an uncomfortable tingling, and is missing the top portion of his finger. If he had not had insurance, Inga might have advised him to pack his finger in cayenne, which is what encouraged the flesh to grow back into place. Why? Because cayenne promotes live-tissue regrowth.

How does that happen? Here’s an old story, well known by heavy-duty cayenne lovers, that has been repeated in a number of publications. A team of research doctors put some live heart tissue into a sterile beaker filled with distilled water, and fed it nothing but cayenne pepper. All they did was clean off the sediment periodically, add distilled water to compensate for natural evaporation — and trim it every few days.

The tissue grew continuously. It had no control glands, such as pituitary or pineal glands, but it just continued growing –– rapidly. The doctors and their associates kept the heart tissue alive for seventeen years before destroying it so they could do other, unrelated research work on it.

Where Can I Get More Information?

Progressive Medical Centers of America

The Medicinal Uses of Cayenne

Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine

HealthWorld Online: Herbal Medicine

But Wait, There's More

At
BASTIS Foundation, we see many cardiovascular patients who have had
little success maintaining decent quality of life using various types of
allopathic drugs and surgery. Most, in fact, report feeling worse and
come to us as a last resort. Some have been on so many medications that
they could barely walk; their organs were threatening to shut down or
were in the process of doing so.

Seventy-six
year old Moe had been taking coumadin for three years. Coumadin — which
is literally used as rat poison — is not supposed to be taken for more
than six weeks at a time because it is so toxic. It can thin the blood
to the point of fatal hemorrhage after the slightest bruise or fall.

Moe
wanted to get off the medication, but his doctor told him he'd have to
remain on it for life to avoid a stroke. He was scared — who wouldn't
be? But he was also scared of his liver having to filter this toxic drug
for so long.

We
intended to wean Moe off the coumadin over a six-week period, gradually
increasing his intake of a cayenne formula that also included hawthorne
berries and other herbs that support the cardiovascular system. He,
however, was anxious to speed up the process and stopped taking the
coumadin only three weeks into the cayenne build-up. He claimed he felt
better than he had in many years.

At
his next cardiology appointment, Moe's doctor screamed at him for
recklessly putting his faith in some "worthless herbal formula,"
predicting a possible stroke at any moment. With his limited knowledge
of natural medicine, he ordered Moe to restart the coumadin immediately,
and double the dose for a week to correct this potentially deadly
situation. He also took a blood sample, so the following week he could
show Moe the damage he had foolishly done.

Moe
was thoroughly confused. He felt "better than in many years." He was
breathing, walking and sleeping better; had increased energy, his leg
cramps were gone –– he just plain felt good all over. After discussing
it with a BASTIS Foundation caregiver, he decided to keep taking the
cayenne formula, figuring that if he started to feel uncomfortable, he
could always go back to the coumadin.

That
was on a Thursday. The following Tuesday, Moe's cardiologist called.
His blood-test results were so good, he wanted Moe to stop taking the
coumadin altogether. The doctor didn't understand how he could be doing
so well on just the herbs, but told him to keep it up. Moe's
cardiologist, thank God, had enough of an open mind that he was willing
to learn, and let his patient heal.

Isn’t that the best kind of medicine there is?

Stroke? Tumor? Cayenne!

“John”
started having severe headaches and slurring his speech. After an MRI
inconclusively indicated either he’d had a stroke or had a brain tumor, a
very intimidating neurosurgeon told his family and friends in the
emergency room that he wanted to admit John as a patient immediately so
an oncological team could drill into the cerebellum to relieve the
pressure. If there was indeed a tumor, they would remove it, even before
verifying whether it was malignant.

BASTIS
Foundation thought the doctor was rushing into a dangerous, invasive
procedure without any certain diagnosis. If anything went wrong, John
could be rendered a vegetable –– provided he survived the surgery.

John’s
family was terrified, but had to leave the decision up to John, who
told the doctor that he was going home to sleep in his own bed next to
his wife. He then told us he was ready to start the intensive program he
knew BASTIS would design for him.

Result?
Within a few weeks, John’s headaches were long gone, his speech was
fine, his color was great and he certainly didn’t look his age. He took
"shooters" of cayenne faithfully for the last nine months, along with
several other nutritional supplements. Nine months after his ER
experience –– having never taken any of the prescribed drugs or
undergoing any surgery –– John’s live-blood-cell analysis showed
"perfect" blood –– very active white blood-cell activity with absolutely
no more clotting. He still must be smart about what he eats, he takes
fish oil and cayenne regularly for maintenance, exercises and stays
active.

Several allopathic doctors have told him that the invasive procedure initially suggested would probably have killed him.

Ménière's Disease

More
than one BASTIS Foundation client suffers from Ménière's disease, which
involves hemorrhaging of the small, delicate parts of the inner ear.
There is usually an imbalance of fluid and pressure in the inner ear,
causing intermittent attacks of dizziness, nausea, and spinning vertigo.

BASTIS
recommends eliminating all forms of toxic foods — inorganic salts,
refined sugars, processed foods and beverages, dairy foods, and fatty
meats — and adding some form of cayenne pepper to their diet, preferably
by tincture on the tongue rather than in capsules, which have to go
through the digestive tract.

We
have had reports of the vertigo stopping within a few short minutes
after one dose of approximately one teaspoon cayenne tincture in warm
water. The vertigo usually does not return as long as the client
continues taking a daily dose of cayenne pepper, unless the body's
toxicity level increases again.

There
is significant evidence that allopathic medications contribute to
developing Ménière's disease. When the body reaches saturation level
from too many toxic drugs, its "gyrocompass" fails, leading the patient
to stagger and fall. Adding further medications to "help" the problem
usually entails sedatives that barely allow the person to function at
all.

Cayenne,
on the other hand, opens up the neural pathways rapidly, allowing a
rush of oxygen to flow throughout the entire body, often stopping a
vertigo attack in its tracks. One client reported that she made her
mother, who tends to have Ménière's attacks, take a dropper of cayenne
tincture; within a few minutes, her mom’s ears were burning, but she
didn't have the attack she had expected that evening. Her daughter
excitedly told her that her circulation was working, that the cayenne
had reached exactly where it knew it had to reach — where there was a
blockage!

Just An Everyday Miracle

“Dia,”
suffered from both Reynaud's disease and multiple sclerosis for many
years. Her Reynaud's is severe enough that she experienced an aortal
spasm several years ago –– a very painful contraction of the main artery
leading off the heart. Today, Dia takes cayenne in capsule form three
times a day. When she has a Reynaud's attack, during which the blood
vessels in her extremities spasm, she immediately pops two cayenne
capsules along with a dose of Rescue Remedy and a capful of Arnica
tablets. Within minutes, she's warm and functioning again. This
combination also works well whenever she has an MS flare-up or a
headache.

Click here to read more about Dia’s miraculous CAM-induced recovery

Bottom
line: cayenne is a miracle herb that can save your life. Adding it to
your other daily herbs and supplements will only enhance their
effectiveness, as cayenne is synergistic in its action. Ginkgo biloba,
for example, is well-known for helping with memory and other mental
functions, but has been effective in only about 20% of the most serious
cases. If your memory is slipping away, 20% is not acceptable. Add
cayenne to the ginkgo biloba, however, and that effectiveness increases
to 95%. As in all disease, memory loss is a side-effect from a blockage
of blood to the affected area. No blood flow, no healing.

Millions
of Americans whip their heart with nitroglycerine or digitalis or some
other drug, forcing it to beat rapidly to keep it going. Remember,
though, that most heart attacks are due to the heart being malnourished;
it hasn't had a decent meal for so long, it's practically starved.
Cayenne, when fed to the tongue directly in a warm liquid base (such as
water), instantly opens and expands the very cells of the circulatory
system, which instinctively distributes the cayenne where it is now
needed –– in this case, the heart.

Keep
a bottle of either tinctured or powdered cayenne in your car, your
bathroom cabinet, your kitchen, and in your purse or pocket. It may
someday save a life –– maybe even your own! CONTACT US